TEHRAN (FNA) – The UAE’s Crescent Petroleum said on Wednesday that it had made progress on talks to resolve a dispute about pricing and volume for gas imports from Iran but had yet to reach a final agreement.

TEHRAN (FNA) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran has brought world powers to their knees and successfully resisted US-led efforts to get Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment.

TEHRAN (FNA) – A 12-member business delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is slated to arrive here in Tehran Saturday, both on a fact-finding mission and to forge better business relations with Iranian companies.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Phase one development of the Shahid Rajaie Container Terminal (SRCT) project in Bandar Abbas, with a handling capacity of some 1.5 million teu, will open tomorrow.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran may export 2,000 megawatts of electricity to Turkey, announced managing director of Electricity Network Management Company.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran and Iraq have agreed to reactivate some elements of a 1975 border agreement which seemed to cause a row in December when the Iraqi president said the treaty was void, a statement he later retracted.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran and India have agreed to improve bilateral ties, particularly in consular affairs and provision of broader facilities for nationals of both the countries that resulted in signing of a MoU.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Iran’s Guardians Council reinstated another 200 candidates to run in a March parliamentary election.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion killed one British soldier and wounded another in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, and U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected insurgents in two separate operations, officials said. Britain’s Ministry of Defense in London said the blast hit as a British patrol was trying to …

The umbrella coalition of fundamentalist groups is trying to create a candidate slate more comprehensive and rational than the United Fundamentalist Front’s list for the upcoming parliamentary election, MP Mohammad Khoshchehreh said here on Wednesday.